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    A neurotic immigrant returns to visit his distant homeland after many years away, but finds the place dark, empty, and unwelcoming. Neighbors scorn him as if he no longer belongs, and when he enters his old home he finds it covered in dust in an apparent attempt to erase his past. Alone with himself, he sits in terror by candlelight, taking stock of what truly matters to him in the face of feeling lost and without identity in his roots or homeland.

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    Immigrants lose both worlds

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    A neurotic immigrant returns to visit his distant homeland after many years away, but finds the place dark, empty, and unwelcoming. Neighbors scorn him as if he no longer belongs, and when he enters his old home he finds it covered in dust in an apparent attempt to erase his past. Alone with himself, he sits in terror by candlelight, taking stock of what truly matters to him in the face of feeling lost and without identity in his roots or homeland.

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    Neurotic Immigrant-A Poem

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    Noman Mahmood
    A neurotic immigrant returns to visit his distant homeland after many years away, but finds the place dark, empty, and unwelcoming. Neighbors scorn him as if he no longer belongs, and when he enters his old home he finds it covered in dust in an apparent attempt to erase his past. Alone with himself, he sits in terror by candlelight, taking stock of what truly matters to him in the face of feeling lost and without identity in his roots or homeland.

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    Woe to The Neurotic Immigrant Visiting His Distant Home

    By Noman Mahmood

    A word he had overheard kept gnawing at his tired brain,


    how could a couple of ears cause so much pain ?

    Arrived at the place he left, when he was little


    it's dark and empty, everything looked so brittle.

    A man now much aged walked past with such scorn


    made him feel, if he shouldn't have been born.

    Neighbor's dog barking with so much fear


    as if to say you are no longer welcome here.

    Entered his old home everything covered with dust


    surely, a desperate attempt to erase his past.

    Wondered if he had lost his roots and his true identity


    he hurriedly sat down to indulge in self-pity.

    Behind a large desk and a rightly placed mirror,


    candle light on his face and eyes open wide in sheer terror.

    "Alone with myself at last” he softly muttered


    time to take stock of what really mattered.

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